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WhatsApp-based vocabulary instruction module (pre-teaching, teaching, post-teaching phases)

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Description

A mobile-based instructional module in which the experimental group installed WhatsApp and "electronically received vocabulary instructions four days a week for four weeks (16 sessions)", with five vocabulary items per session in a shared chat group. Print materials were converted to mobile format, with pictures, videos, definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and drills sent via WhatsApp, and students sent individual answers to the teacher. The module had three phases: pre-teaching, teaching, and post-teaching.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Students must install WhatsApp on a cell phone, tablet, or laptop and join a shared WhatsApp chat group
  • Instructional materials must be converted from print into a mobile-based format

Constraints

  • The study applied the module to elementary-level, non-English-major junior high school students in Isfahan, Iran

Target Learners

  • junior high school EFL students

Learning Goals

  • English vocabulary knowledge

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Sanaz Jafari & Azizeh Chalak. (2016). The Role of WhatsApp in Teaching Vocabulary to Iranian EFL Learners at Junior High School. English Language Teaching, 9(8). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v9n8p85
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title WhatsApp-based vocabulary instruction module (pre-teaching, teaching, post-teaching phases)
description A mobile-based instructional module in which the experimental group installed WhatsApp and "electronically received vocabulary instructions four days a week for four weeks (16 sessions)", with five vocabulary items pe...
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